Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] a [noun sg] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | To no other , to no less divine a source can I trace the movement ’ , but as we have seen , other speakers , like Joseph Parker , were more perceptive while the 1897 National Council president admitted that ‘ perhaps it can scarcely be denied that in some of our earliest Nonconformist Councils … at first the inspiration was to a large extent political ’ . |
| 2 | The job losses in United Kingdom defence industries as a result of the change of emphasis in British procurement are as nothing compared with those that would be suffered under the Labour party 's defence policy — if so dignified a term can be used for something so confused , contradictory and misleading . |
| 3 | The statutory criteria ( in section 1 ) state that a custodial sentence must not be passed unless either ( a ) the current offence is ‘ so serious that only such a sentence can be justified for the offence ’ or ( b ) , in the case of violent or sexual offences only , only a custodial sentence ‘ would be adequate to protect the public from serious harm ’ . |
| 4 | Only such a theory can generate rules which can be accepted as having the sort of ethical authority that is required for international law to be taken seriously as the ultimate arbiter of international relations . |
| 5 | So rustic a dish can hardly , he realizes , be offered to the fine ladies and gentlemen who frequent the elegant restaurant over which he presides . |
| 6 | Thus such a complex can be described as a d 8 complex . |
| 7 | The traditional dependence on a literal version of written sources is absent , although elsewhere such a dependence can still be found , particularly in discussion of the origin of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms ( Biddle 1976 ; Hope-Taylor 1977 , 276–324 ) . |
| 8 | Just how much more successful a company can become with these professional negotiating skills can be unbelievably impressive . |
| 9 | Thus the gist of Spinoza 's argument , for example , is that whereas in ordinary circumstances we may indeed find it useful and necessary to distinguish between essential and accidental properties , metaphysically such a distinction can not be upheld . |
| 10 | FAR RIGHT The gift of reading is one of the most important a parent can give to a child . |
| 11 | How psychologically hopped-up a WATCH can look. ! |
| 12 | Surely such a creature can not be of use to us ? ’ |
| 13 | Yet such a change can happen . |
| 14 | However such a distinction can be a narrow one especially since some limitation clauses are effectively exclusion clauses where , for example , the limitation of liability is for a trivial sum . |
| 15 | While a gravel tidy with too fine a mesh will soon block , one with too large a mesh can see the fry ending up in the gravel bed below and the parents trying to get at them . |